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From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)
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Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?
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On 27 Sep 2001 18:20:22 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>Like a broken record, I will say it again, if you think this is a
>viable market, then by all means seize the opportunity. I think you
>can be pretty sure that ACT will
>not try to compete with you in that segment of the marketplace!

I don't think it is a viable market, at least not as the sole market
for an organisation. My point is that, as far as I am aware, you (ACT)
already have a boxed product that is provided to Supported Customers
(at least that is the impression I got from the nice box, manuals and
CDs that arrived at the last place I worked - feel free to correct me
if I'm mistaken here), so why not also sell it to individuals on a
no-support, fixed price basis?

Of course it is your choice not to do this, and I can appreciate your
reasons for doing so, but it seems like there is a (admittedly small)
market there that you (or perhaps an offshoot) could target. As far as
a third party creating an organisation *just* to target this market, I
think that would be senseless.